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Your host for this fine meal will be Warren Buffett and his portfolio of delicacies.

With Warren Buffett’s dive into the Heinz Ketchup empire, his portfolio of food and drink investments gets another family of condiments, tater tots and frozen meals. But what would a meal from Warren’s empire look like? Here’s a taste of some of the dishes that would take pride of place at the Buffett Buffet:

Let’s start, as any properly American meal would, with Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Mr Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway was once one of the food giant’s biggest shareholders, but he has sold down his stake since, and now owns about 1.7% each of US-focused Kraft Foods and Mondelez International, the global snack food company that was spun off from Kraft last year. Buffett had some issues with the way Kraft went about its $19.4 billion purchase of Cadbury, including the way it sold off its frozen pizza business to Nestle for what he thought was a cheap price in the frenzy of money-raising leading up to the big deal. So there’s no pizza on the Buffett Buffet, but when the King of Foods is at the table, who’s asking?

We are, that’s who. More on Warren’s table, after the jump. Read More »